IS 2150 / TEL 2810 Introduction to Security James Joshi Professor, SIS Lecture 12 2016 Intrusion Detection, Auditing System Firewalls & VPN 1
Intrusion Detection 2
Intrusion Detection/Response Denning: Systems under attack fail to meet one or more of the following characteristics 1. Actions of users/processes conform to statistically predictable patterns 2. Actions of users/processes do not include sequences of commands to subvert security policy 3. Actions of processes conform to specifications describing allowable actions 3
Intrusion Detection Idea: Attack can be discovered by one of the above being violated Practical goals of intrusion detection systems: Detect a wide variety of intrusions (known + unknown) Detect in a timely fashion Present analysis in a useful manner Need to monitor many components; proper interfaces needed Be (sufficiently) accurate Minimize false positives and false negatives 4
IDS Types: Anomaly Detection Compare system characteristics with expected values Threshold metric: statistics deviate / threshold E.g., Number of failed logins Statistical moments: mean/standard deviation Number of user events ents in a systemstem Time periods of user activity Resource usages profiles Markov model: based on state, expected likelihood of transition to new states If a low probability event occurs then it is considered suspicious 5
IDS Types: Misuse Modeling Does sequence of instructions violate security policy? Problem: How do we know all violating sequences? Solution: capture known violating sequences Generate a rule set for an intrusion signature Alternate solution: State-transition transition approach Known bad state transition from attack Capture when transition has occurred (user root) 6
Specification Modeling Does sequence of instructions violate system specification? What is the system specification? Need to formally specify operations of potentially critical code trusted code Verify post-conditions met 7
IDS Systems Anomaly Detection Intrusion Detection Expert System (IDES) successor is NIDES Network Security Monitor - NSM Misuse Detection Intrusion Detection In Our Time- IDIOT (colored Petri-nets) USTAT ASAX (Rule-based) Hybrid NADIR (Los Alamos) Haystack (Air force, adaptive) Hyperview (uses neural network) Distributed IDS (Haystack + NSM) 8
IDS Architecture Agent Host 1 Similar to Audit system Director Log events Analyze log Difference: happens real-time - timely fashion (Distributed) IDS idea: Agent generates log Notifier Director analyzes logs Agent Host 1 Agent May be adaptive Host 1 Notifier decides how to handle result GrIDS displays attacks in progress 9
Where is the Agent? Host based IDS watches events on the host Often uses existing audit logs Network-based IDS Packet sniffing Firewall logs 10
IDS Problem IDS useless unless accurate Significant fraction of intrusions detected Significant number of alarms correspond to intrusions Goal is Reduce false positives Reports an attack, but no attack underway Reduce false negatives An attack occurs but IDS fails to report 11
Intrusion Response Incident Prevention Stop attack before it succeeds Measures to detect attacker Example: Jailing (also Honepots) Intrusion handling Preparation for detecting attacks Identification of an attack Contain attack Eradicate attack Recover to secure state Follow-up to the attack - Punish attacker 12
Containment Passive monitoring Track intruder actions Eases recovery and punishment Constraining access Downgrade attacker privileges Protect t sensitive information Why not just pull the plug 13
Eradication Terminate network connection Terminate processes Block future attacks Close ports Disallow specific IP addresses Wrappers around attacked applications 14
Follow-Up Legal action Trace through network Cut off resources Notify ISP of action Counterattack Is this a good idea? 15
Auditing 16
What is Auditing? Auditing systems Logging Audit analysis Key issues What to log? What do you audit? Goals/uses User accountability Damage assessment Determine causes of security violations Describe security state for monitoring critical problems Evaluate effectiveness of protection mechanisms 17
Audit System Structure Logger Records information, usually controlled by parameters Analyzer Logs may come from multiple systems, or a single system May lead to changes in logging May lead to a report of an event Notifier Informs analyst, other entities of results of analysis May reconfigure logging and/or analysis on basis of results May take some action 18
Example: Windows NT Different logs for different types of events System event logs record system crashes, component failures, and other system events Application event logs record events that applications request be recorded Security event log records security-critical critical events such as logging in and out, system file accesses, and other events Logs are binary; use event viewer to see them If log full, can have system shut down, logging disabled, or logs overwritten 19
Windows NT Sample Entry Date: 2/12/2000 Source: Security Time: 13:03 Category: Detailed Tracking Type: Success EventID: 592 User: WINDSOR\Administrator Computer: WINDSOR Description: A new process has been created: New Process ID: 2216594592 Image File Name: \Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE Creator Process ID: 2217918496 User Name: Administrator FDomain: WINDSOR Logon ID: (0x0,0x14B4c4) [would be in graphical format] 20
Designing an Audit System Goals determine what is logged Idea: auditors want to detect violations of policy, which provides a set of constraints that the set of possible actions must satisfy So, audit functions that may violate the constraints Constraint p i : action condition 21
Implementation Issues Show non-secure or find violations? Former requires logging initial state and changes Defining violations Does write include append and create directory? Multiple names for one object Logging goes by object and not name Representations can affect this Syntactic issues Correct grammar unambiguous semantics 22
Log Sanitization U set of users, P policy defining set of information C(U) that U cannot see; log sanitized when all information in C(U) deleted from log Two types of P C(U) can t leave site People inside id site are trusted t and information not sensitive to them C(U) can t leave system People inside site not trusted or (more commonly) information sensitive to them Don t log this sensitive information 23
Logging Organization Logging system Log Sanitizer Users Logging system Sanitizer Log Users Top prevents information from leaving site Users privacy not protected from system administrators, other administrative personnel Bottom prevents information from leaving system Data simply not recorded, or data scrambled before recording (Cryptography) 24
Reconstruction Anonymizing sanitizer cannot be undone Pseudonymizing sanitizer can be undone Importance Suppose security analysis requires access to information that was sanitized? 25
Issue Key: sanitization must preserve properties needed for security analysis If new properties added (because analysis changes), may have to resanitize information This requires pseudonymous sanitization or the original log 26
Example Company wants to keep its IP addresses secret, but wants a consultant to analyze logs for an address scanning attack Connections to port 25 on IP addresses 10.163.5.10, 10.163.5.11, 10.163.5.12, 10.163.5.13, 10.163.5.14, Sanitize with random IP addresses Cannot see sweep through consecutive IP addresses Sanitize with sequential IP addresses Can see sweep through consecutive IP addresses 27
Firewalls & VPN 28
What is a VPN? A network that supports a closed community of authorized users Use the public Internet as part of the virtual private network There is traffic isolation Contents, Services, Resources secure Provide security! Confidentiality and integrity of data User authentication Network access control IPSec can be used
Tunneling in VPN
Perimeter Defense Organizational system consists of a network of many host machines the system is as secure as the weakest link Use perimeter defense Define a border and use gatekeeper (firewall) If host machines are scattered and need to use public network, use encryption Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Perimeter Defense Is it adequate? Locating and securing all perimeter points is quite difficult Less effective for large border Inspecting/ensuring that remote connections are adequately protected is difficult Insider attack is often the most damaging
Firewalls Total isolation of networked systems is undesirable Use firewalls to achieve selective border control Firewall Is a configuration of machines and software Limits network access for free inside many devices Alternate: a firewall is a host that mediates access to a network, allowing and disallowing certain type of access based on a configured security policy
What Firewalls can t do They are not a panacea Only adds to defense in depth Can provide false sense of security Cannot prevent insider attack Firewalls act at a particular layer
The Development of Firewalls First Generation Packet filtering firewalls are simple networking devices that filter packets by examining every incoming and outgoing packet header can selectively filter packets based on values in the packet header IP address, type of packet, port request, and/or other elements
Second Generation Application-level firewalls often consists of dedicated computers kept separate from the first filtering i router (edge router) Commonly used in conjunction with a second or internal filtering router Proxy server, rather than the Web server, is exposed to outside world from within a network segment called the demilitarized zone (DMZ), Implemented for specific protocols
Third Generation Stateful inspection firewalls keep track of each network connection established between internal and external systems state and context of each packet exchanged (who / when) can restrict incoming packets by matching with requests from internal hosts Non-matching packets - it uses ACL rights to determine whether to allow the packet to pass
Fourth Generation A fourth-generation firewall, or dynamic packet filtering firewall, allows only a particular packet with a specific source, destination, and port address to pass through the firewall understands how the protocol functions, and by opening and closing pathways in the firewall an intermediate form, between traditional static packet filters and application proxies
Firewall Architectures For each type can be implemented in a number of architectural configurations Four architectural implementations of firewalls are especially common: Packet filtering routers Screened-host firewalls Dual-homed host firewalls Screened-subnet firewalls
Packet Filtering Routers Most organizations with an Internet connection use a router between their internal networks and the external service provider Limitation lacks auditing and strong authentication complexity of the ACLs used to filter the packets can grow to the point of degrading network performance
Packet Filtering Router/Firewall
Screened-Host Firewall Systems Screened-host firewall systems combine packet filtering router with a separate, dedicated firewall such as an application proxy server Application proxy examines an application layer protocol, such as HTTP, and performs the proxy services This separate host, referred to as a bastion host, represents a single, rich target for external attacks, and should be very thoroughly secured
Screened-Host Firewall
Dual-Homed Host Firewalls In this configuration, the bastion host contains two network interfaces: One connected to external network One connected to internal network, requiring all traffic to travel through the firewall to move between the internal and external networks Network address translation (NAT) is often implemented with this architecture Converts external IP addresses to special ranges of internal IP addresses
Figure 9-7 Dual-Homed Host Firewall
Screened-Subnet Firewalls (with DMZ) consists of one or more internal bastion hosts located behind a consists of one or more internal bastion hosts located behind a packet filtering router, with each host protecting the trusted network
Summary Intrusion detection system Various types Auditing Design issues Firewalls Four different types 47